Little change in shot SAPD officer's condition

Police Officer Robert Deckard, 31, is in the intensive care unit at SAMMC.

Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene along U.S. 181 south of Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. It is believed that two suspects in the shooting of San Antonio Police officer Robert Deckard were arrested near the scene. Deckard, 31, is an eight-year veteran of the force and was pursuing the suspects after an armed robbery in San Antonio. The officer was struck when the suspects shot at the officer during the chase. The northbound lane of 181 was closed due to the investigation.

Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene along U.S. 181 south of Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. It is believed that two suspects in the shooting of San Antonio Police officer Robert Deckard were arrested near the scene. Deckard, 31, is an eight-year veteran of the force and was pursuing the suspects after an armed robbery in San Antonio. The officer was struck when the suspects shot at the officer during the chase. The northbound lane of 181 was closed due to the investigation.

Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene along U.S. 181 south of Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. It is believed that two suspects in the shooting of San Antonio Police officer Robert Deckard were arrested near the scene. Deckard, 31, is an eight-year veteran of the force and was pursuing the suspects after an armed robbery in San Antonio. The officer was struck when the suspects shot at the officer during the chase. The northbound lane of 181 was closed due to the investigation.

Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene along U.S. 181 south of Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. It is believed that two suspects in the shooting of San Antonio Police officer Robert Deckard were arrested near the scene. Deckard, 31, is an eight-year veteran of the force and was pursuing the suspects after an armed robbery in San Antonio. The officer was struck when the suspects shot at the officer during the chase. The northbound lane of 181 was closed due to the investigation.

Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene along U.S. 181 south of Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. It is believed that two suspects in the shooting of San Antonio Police officer Robert Deckard were arrested near the scene. Deckard, 31, is an eight-year veteran of the force and was pursuing the suspects after an armed robbery in San Antonio. The officer was struck when the suspects shot at the officer during the chase. The northbound lane of 181 was closed due to the investigation.

Photo By Bexar County Sheriff's Office

Jenevieve Ramos, 28, was arrested on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, in Wilson County following a three county chase that including the shooting of SAPD Officer Robert Deckard, 31, who was critically injured and taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center. Ramos and Shawn Ruiz Puente, 32, who was also arrested in the case, are suspected in a string of robberies in San Antonio. She was charged with aggravated assault of a peace officer.

Shawn Ruiz Puente, 32, is in Atascosa County Jail.

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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio Police Officer who was shot in the head over the weekend had stabilized “a bit further” by Monday night, but there has been little change in his condition, officials said Tuesday.

Doctors are waiting for some of Officer Robert Deckard's swelling to subside and are not expecting much of a change for days, the police department posted on its Facebook page, where it has been providing periodic updates into the officer's condition.

“Things are going as well as can be expected,” the department wrote.

Deckard, 31, was shot in the forehead Sunday while pursuing two robbery suspects through Atascosa County in his patrol car.

The pair suspected in the shooting, Jenevieve Ramos, 28, and Shawn Ruiz Puente, 32, were apprehended in Wilson County and charged with aggravated assault of a public servant.

Deckard has worked for SAPD for seven years and has two children. He was not scheduled to work the overnight shift that started Saturday, but he was filling in for another officer.

Deckard is the fourth SAPD officer injured this year in a shooting, according to police records.